V/H/S

Before the anthology horror film “V/H/S” premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival, there was an air of dark mystery about it. There was no movie poster, and little was known about its story line. The secrecy was intentional on the part of its makers — a group that included Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Ti West and the four-person team known as Radio Silence. They and the film’s producers had decided to remain tight-lipped to boost the movie’s buzz and bolster its reputation as a dangerous cult oddity. When reports emerged of audience members vomiting and fainting at an early screening, its reputation was sealed, no matter that altitude and alcohol might have had more to do with those reactions than any hand-held camera work or on-screen horror. Still, the film is not for the […]